Journal of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, XXXVII, 2002, Book 3

EDUCATION

EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES
S. Terzieva

DYNAMICS OF THE CHANGES IN SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHO - MOTOR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDENTS AT UCTM
V. Gavrilov

 

EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES
S. Terzieva

 

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8 Kl. Ohridski, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria E-mail: senia@uctm.edu

Received 13 May 2002 Accepted 28 June 2002

 

The introduction of modern educational technologies in the engineering education is accompanied by a lot of problems and tasks. With the active learning techniques we balance the relation of the basic functions of teaching - the delivering of information and the promotion of the development of learning and professional skills. Simultaneously a lot of new questions connected with the quality of the professional training, the formation of skills and abilities for action arise. Here we discuss some of them. This paper present a view for assessment of the effectives of educational technologies in respect on actual academic aims, and the inabilities of learning environment to be productive instrument to achieve a entire range of the practitional requirements. The experience in active learning is analysed in the context of the engineering training goals and self evaluations of personal students' achievements.
Keywords: educational technologies, competence development, assessment and self assessment of learning effects

DYNAMICS OF THE CHANGES IN SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHO - MOTOR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDENTS AT UCTM
V. Gavrilov

 

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8 Kl. Ohridski, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria E-mail: venzigavrilov@hotmail.com

Received 16 May 2002 Accepted 20 May 2002

 

During the last few years a decrease of the basic psychological and psycho - motor characteristics of the students is observed. We can assume that is due to the modern way of living. Nowadays the students do not move enough because of the lack of sport facilities and sport habits that have to be developed during sports classes at high school.
This research has taken place during the 2001/2002 school year with 50 students from the profiled football groups at UCTM. Boys that are not part of the representative teams of the University in the experiment participated. We held 30 classes, one class a week with a duration of 90 minutes each.
During the research we have traced students perception of time, we have tested students' memory and thinking as well as their speed of movement reaction and frequency of movement.
The boys from the football groups have shown positive changes during the experiments for studying perception of time, memory level and thinking, speed of movement reaction and frequency of movement.
Keywords: perception, memory, thinking, movement reaction, frequency of movement